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Birr :: Birr (n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel..

Spin :: Spinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spi.

Water Frame :: Water frame () A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power..

Jenny :: "Jenny (n.) A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories..

Spinneys :: Spinnerule (n.) One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

Minerva :: Minerva (n.) The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene..

Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning..

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..

Carding :: Carding (a.) The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t..

Technology :: Technology (n.) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc..

Frame :: Frame (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc..

Cribellum :: Cribellum (n.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk..

Fate :: Fate (n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread..

Telary :: Telary (a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary..

Spin :: Spin (v. i.) To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness..

Spreadingly :: Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.

Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..

Rock :: Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning..

Tourn :: Tourn (n.) A spinning wheel.

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